The US legal system is structured hierarchically, with the Constitution as the supreme law, followed by federal and state laws, and further detailed by regulations. This system involves elected officials creating laws, with interpretation and enforcement handled by various branches of government at federal, state, and local levels.
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all right
so we're back
so there are different levels of laws
and regulations and
the supreme law
under every under which everything falls
in the united states is
the uh
constitution the us constitution
so you may have heard oh that's unconstitutional
unconstitutional
no law can violate the constitution period
period and
so everything has to fit under the
constitution is the constitution fixed no
no
there are many amendments to the constitution
constitution
i would argue that
it's something that's not likely to
happen at this point in history
i don't see the
will or the interest to
modernize the constitution in any way
right at the moment but i would also
argue that there are some things in the
constitution that probably should be
modernized at some point
the constitution was written a very very
very long time ago and many of the
amendments to the constitution were
really about human rights civil rights
rights and protections for the most part that
that were
were
in some way left out or weren't properly
worded in the original constitution but
what we have now is the supreme law
under that law
we have the federal
and state laws which we'll get into in a moment
moment
but laws in general are
rules that are adopted by elected officials
officials and
and
the actual
meaning of that law changes
changes
by court interpretation so we have three
branches of government the executive
branch which is the president of the
united states
the legislative branch which is our senate
senate
and our house of representatives and
and
our judicial branch or
the court system at the federal level
there are federal courts
and the supreme court
plus courts of appeal as well
at the state level it's very similar we
have a governor
we have
a state legislature
and we have
our state courts our state courts of
appeal and our state supreme court
the supreme court of california
and all of that falls underneath the
umbrella of the federal level
level
and we also have county and city level so
so
federal state county city and they each
are organized in a very similar way
so these elected officials are
are
congress or state legislature
or county board of supervisors
or city council
again going down the list of levels
we elect those people and they
write laws and regulations
with the intent to represent the people
in their constituency people they are representing